Dimensions: 23.4 x 31.7 cm
Inscribed l.d.: 'Chelmonski'
on the reverse p.d. stamp: 'Hotel Drouot | Joseph Chelmonski | Etude Dumousset - Deburau' and number in pencil l.d.: '23'
Provenance
private collection, France
Dumousset-Deburaux auction, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 1995
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Józef Chełmoński. Recovered Drawings, Arsenal City Gallery, Poznan, June-July 1996
Literature
Józef Chełmoński. Recovered Drawings, text by Tadeusz Matuszczak, exhibition catalog, Arsenal City Gallery, Poznań 1996, cat. no. 23.
Biography
In 1867-71 he studied painting at the Drawing Class and at the private studio of Wojciech Gerson in Warsaw. In 1871-74 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was associated with the Polish artistic colony centered around Jozef Brandt and Maksymilian Gierymski. A formative moment for Chelmonski's work was his travels to Podolia and Ukraine (1872 and 1874-75). Until 1887 he lived in Paris, where his paintings were very popular. He then returned to Poland, settling in Kuklówka near Grodzisk Mazowiecki. He was one of the most outstanding Polish landscape painters of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted realistic and atmospheric in character landscapes and genre scenes inspired by Mazovian or borderland nature. Chelmonski's paintings are in the most important public collections in Poland, as well as European and American private collections.
